IDG: Update: Microsoft to alpha test Office 14 before end of year

By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service - Blog posting by Microsoft employee calls for people to be part of a technology adoption program to test the monitoring and analytics components of Office PerformancePoint Server

Microsoft will begin alpha testing the next version of Office in November or December, according to a blog posting by a Microsoft employee that was later pulled from the Web.

According to the blog posting, by Hayley Rixon, who works on the Microsoft business intelligence team, Microsoft is calling for people to be part of a technology adoption program (TAP) that will give them an early opportunity to test the monitoring and analytics components of Office PerformancePoint Server.